Poems featured in CwG workshops
LONG AT SEA
I left the Home so long ago now
that I would not recognize
my own face.
I constructed the Boat of my Life,
and I set out
into the open sea,
waving to all who knew
that the seas would give me
everything I could handle,
and everything I could not—
and yet they waved, and I set out
into the open sea
in the Boat of My Life:
built from Soul, crafted by Heart.
And with great innocence I pushed off
into the open sea
and have been away from my Home
so long now that I would not recognize my own face—
but I know that Home,
Home
remembers me.
THE BEST DANCERS
Maybe God keeps me here like this
to stumble a little.
If I were to suddenly just
turn into light,
blinding myself even
to the most precious and necessary illusions,
then what hand could hold my own?
Where would rest a weary head?
What good use for warm hearts;
for hot tears?
Why eyes to see?
Why arms to open?
Which Lovefamily to fall into?
Oh, the best dancers know
what grace
every stumble
contains.
YOU WERE MEANT
All of this--
it is preparation:
for walking in the world
as Light.
You have been found now,
and the running of many lifetimes
is over.
So as each layer of dust
is wiped clean from the surface
the You
you have known
must disperse.
Let this Light become
your Speech & your Silence.
Let the grief
that has lived you,
pass away.
Let the people
who love You,
Love Themselves.
Let the Earth shake,
the Stars burn,
the Skies break
when You do...
As painful as this part is,
You were meant
to know your Light.
SHINE
Life says for me to tell you this:
Nothing needs fixing.
Everything desires
a Celebration.
You were made to bend
so that you could find
all of the many miracles
at your feet.
You were made to stretch
so that you would discover
your own beautiful face of heaven
just above all that you think
you must shoulder.
When I appeal to God to speak to me
I'm feeling just as small, and alone
as you might be.
But this is when
~for no particular reason at all~
I begin to
Shine
The poems you've read here are available in the book, Home Remembers Me, a collection of over 90 poems written by Em Claire that support the journey of "a Spiritual being having a Human experience". Also available on audio as a double-CD set, read by the author.